Sánchez accuses the PP of blocking the Constitutional Court to try to "govern from behind"

In the midst of a struggle against the political and judicial right, Pedro Sánchez has accused the Popular Party of trying to maintain the blockade of the renewal of the Constitutional Court because "they try to govern from behind.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
21 December 2022 Wednesday 04:32
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Sánchez accuses the PP of blocking the Constitutional Court to try to "govern from behind"

In the midst of a struggle against the political and judicial right, Pedro Sánchez has accused the Popular Party of trying to maintain the blockade of the renewal of the Constitutional Court because "they try to govern from behind." The President of the Government has insisted, in the control session in Congress, that the main opposition party continues not to accept the 2019 electoral result and, therefore, "blocks the renewal of constitutional bodies and the proper functioning of the democracy because it considers that the Judiciary is its own”.

"The PP does not like the laws approved by this Chamber and the executive branch," he warned. And he has highlighted, as examples, the Euthanasia law, the new educational legislation, the labor reform, the minimum vital income... "That is why the right and the ultra-right appeal to the Constitutional Court all these social advances," said Sánchez. "They do it because they do not have a parliamentary majority, they do not recognize that they are in a minority and, therefore, they try to govern from behind," he denounced, using the "conservative majority of the Constitutional Court" for this purpose.

The spokesperson for the PP, Cuca Gamarra, has blamed Sánchez, in the face of this fight for the Constitutional Court, which "only sees plots where there is only legality." And she has assured that the President of the Government tried to "put a pulse on the rule of law, which has doubled his pulse."

But the PSOE leader has replied that the PP has "a particular way of interpreting the Constitution", according to which only this party is responsible for appointing the members of the Constitutional Court and the General Council of the Judiciary. “The Constitution does not say that, and this government is going to enforce the Constitution. But not the one that you say, but the one that is written and was approved by the Spaniards", Sánchez has settled, before the new legislative initiative that the Socialists are preparing to try to unblock the renewal of the Constitutional Court.

Sánchez has regretted that the PP remains in "the usual raca-raca", calling the Government "illegitimate and squatter". And he has warned that Alberto Núñez Feijóo has even criticized him for appointing the president of the Post Office, Juan Manuel Serrano, who was his chief of staff in the PSOE. And he has taken the opportunity to ironize Feijóo, who was also in charge of this state-owned company between 2000 and 2003. "Is it that Feijóo was appointed president of the Post Office by Aznar because of his extensive experience as a postman?", Sánchez has stirred up, among the applause of the socialist bench.